ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Ankara could help end the Ukraine-Russia war, but Putin’s spokesman said Erdogan could not play the role of an intermediary in the 28-month-old conflict. Erdogan, speaking to Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan, said […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donald Trump has said repeatedly he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again. Russia’s United Nations ambassador says he can’t. When asked to respond to the claim from the presumptive Republican nominee, Vassily Nebenzia told reporters Monday that “the Ukrainian crisis cannot […]
Russia and Ukraine are set to remain locked in battle for the foreseeable future after an international gathering billed as a first step toward peace delivered no eye-catching diplomatic breakthrough that might suggest a coming end to Europe’s biggest conflict since World War Two. The absence of Russia and China from the two-day conference in […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China believes all efforts should be recognised in supporting peace measures around the Russia-Ukraine war, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday. China has never “fanned fire or fuelled the flames”, said Mao Ning, addressing a question on a peace summit. According to a report, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy […]
BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday it would be “’hard to meet” calls for discussions on the Russia-Ukraine war, citing problems with arrangements that appear to point to Beijing’s strongly pro-Moscow stance. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that “China’s hopes appear to be hard to meet at the meeting. “There is still a clear […]
President Joe Biden held a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday morning to address U.S. concerns over China’s trade with Russia amid its war with Ukraine, the issues of cyberattacks and election interference, and efforts to counter illicit narcotics traffic, among other regional and global matters, the White House said. The “check-in” call […]
As the stalemate between Russia and Ukraine continues, the war is changing life not only in Europe but also in countries across Africa. Russia has claimed “growing influence” in Africa in recent years, said Gavin Mortimer in The Spectator, but more recently it has “become evident” that Moscow is “creating chaos in the continent as […]
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Turkey is ready to again host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a video address to the Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit on Feb. 28, the Anadolu news agency reported. The final rounds of unsuccessful peace talks in 2022 took place in the Turkish city of Antalya. Maintaining close ties […]
The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that it will hear a part of Ukraine’s lawsuit against Russia over false allegations of genocide that Moscow used to justify its full-scale invasion, Reuters reported on Feb. 2. Ukraine brought a case before the ICJ in February 2022, arguing that Russia violated international law when […]
This screengrab shows two Russians claiming to be former Wagner commanders. (Gulagu.net) A Russian man who said he had killed children and other civilians while serving with the Wagner private military company in Ukraine appears to have recanted the claim, suggesting he was blackmailed into making it. Azamat Uldarov, a former convict, made his retraction in a […]